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The Centre City Building (formerly known as the United Brethren Building) is an historic building at 36-44 South Main Street at the corner of East Fourth Street in downtown Dayton, Ohio. It was designed by Charles Herby and built in 1904 by the F.A. Requarth Co. for the sum of $305,000 as the headquarters of the Church of the United Brethren in ...
Dayton Fire Station No. 14: September 27, 1980 : 1422 N. Main St. 22: Dayton Motor Car Company Historic District: Dayton Motor Car Company Historic District: May 31, 1984 : 15, 101, 123-5 Bainbridge; 9-111 and 122-124 McDonough
The Dunbar Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district on S Paul Laurence Dunbar Street in Dayton, Ohio. The district is famous for being the home of Paul Laurence Dunbar . On June 30, 1980, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places
A photograph of the Miami and Erie Canal from Geography of Ohio, 1923. Dayton is known as the "Gem City". The nickname's origin is uncertain, but several theories exist. In the early 19th century, a well-known racehorse named Gem hailed from Dayton. In 1845, an article published in the Cincinnati Daily Chronicle by an author known as T stated:
Born in 1847, Rudolph Pretzinger emigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of seven and settled in Dayton. The death of his father in 1863 prompted him to undertake man's work, whereupon he earned a pharmacy degree and began a career that culminated in his ownership of a prominent downtown drugstore, a position in which he remained until his 1909 death.
The Dayton View Historic District is a 680-acre (2.8 km 2) sector of Dayton, Ohio, United States, developed in the late 19th century and consisting of 219 structures, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The area was first recognized by the city as a local historical neighborhood in 1974, via the City of Dayton Ordinance #24688. [3] [2] St. Anne's Hill was registered on the National Register of Historic Places (No. 86001214) in 1986. [4] The designated area is bounded by Fourth, McClure, Josie, and High and Dutoit Streets. [4]
One of nineteen National Register-listed historic districts in the city, [1] it is located immediately northeast of another, Saint Anne's Hill. The district comprises properties on sixteen streets in eastern Dayton, almost directly to the east of downtown. [4] Its boundaries encompass 85 acres (0.34 km 2; 0.133 sq mi).